Sentences with phrase «national moratorium»

We urge states to develop national policies, and to respond to the call by UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Prof. Christof Heyns for national moratoria on fully autonomous weapons.
One week after our campaign launch, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Professor Christof Heyns issued his report on lethal autonomous robots that cited a wide range of objections to the weapons and called for all nations to adopt national moratoria and begin international discussions about how to address them.
With residential foreclosures exceeding 2 million for the year, according to RealtyTrac, concerns about neighborhood stability will surely remain firmly focused on housing for the foreseeable future, particularly if foreclosure freezes are prolonged or a proposed national moratorium on foreclosures takes hold.
Advocacy groups called for a national moratorium on self - driving tests.
Advocacy groups like Consumer Watchdog have already called for a national moratorium on self - driving tests and called on the NHTSA to collect more data about the technology before making changes to federal guidelines for testing autonomous vehicles.
The NAACP, which issued a national moratorium on the charter school sector in 2016, collected $ 36,185.
«This development calls into question the regulatory utility of a national moratorium in a globalized world wherein cross-border care is increasingly prevalent,» Adashi and Cohen wrote in the study.
Be sure to read Howard Fuller's Education Week commentary on the NAACP's call for a national moratorium on new charter schools.
The fact that the NAACP wants a national moratorium on charter schools, many of which offer a high - quality education to low - income and working - class black children, is inexplicable.
There are problems in some cities and states with some charter schools that need to be improved or closed, but calling for a national moratorium on all charter school growth makes no sense at all.
As you craft recommendations from your dialogue across the country, I implore you to rescind the national moratorium on charter schools.
After calling for a national moratorium on charter schools until certain concerns were addressed (see below), the NAACP received blowback from charter school advocates.
Yet, the NAACP made the unprecedented decision to call for a national moratorium on these very same schools.
Echoing the calls coming from prominent civil rights groups, the report urges that «state and federal governments should impose a national moratorium on the rapid growth of charters until the industry's antidemocratic features and corruption - prone business models can be assessed and altered.»
Jeff Bryant, an associate at Campaign for America's Future writes, «a national moratorium on charter schools would stop the hemorrhaging of funds from traditional public schools.»
Good Morning Be sure to read Howard Fuller's Education Week commentary on the NAACP's call for a national moratorium on new charter schools.
In his article for the Huffington Post, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan addressed demands for a national moratorium on mortgage foreclosures.
Information revealed through the investigative efforts of Ouch and his colleagues at the Cambodia Human Rights Task Force contributed to a national moratorium on new land concessions in forest areas.
A previous report by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions issued in May 2013 called on all states to adopt a national moratorium on fully autonomous weapons until new international law can be secured.
It called on states to place a national moratorium on the testing, production, assembly, transfer, acquisition, deployment, and use of the weapons.
Prof. Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions issued a 2013 report for the Human Rights Council that called on all states to adopt a national moratorium on autonomous weapons systems until new international law is achieved.
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